excuse the diversion

OK, time for some good ol' fashioned speculation and wild theories.....about the Halo universe of course. I choose this outlet because only here do I have complete control over everything, bitches.

So, I was playing a game of Slayer on Burial Mounds last nite...a Warthog is driving straight at me, I'm holding a sniper. A head-on shot is horrible angle to take on any vehicle, but I make due...I snipe at the driver, but it takes maybe three shots to knock the front windscreen out before I can hit flesh. About the time I finally bring the 'Hog defenses' down, a teammate turns it into a roasting party with the SPANKr. Gotta love a good SPANKr-ing.

But, this brought me to my current fixation, why was I able to knock the screen out anyhow? Call me crazy, but shouldn't a military vehicle, an assult vehicle at that, have, I dunno, bullet-proof glass? Granted, the 'Hog already is an open-topped death trap, but leaving the front, usually the strongest area of a vehicle, wide open seems, well, stupid. Even something as weak as the Magnum can pop the screen like a zit in a few shots. With brilliant cost-cutting measures like this (but, really, how expensive can bullet-proof 'glass' be in the year 2525 [2552?]?), it's no wonder the human race is on the verge of extinction by those Covie hoards.